State GOP chairman Stephen Minarik yesterday blasted Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for preventing one of his top aides from testifying at a congressional hearing on pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures, calling him a “horrible hypocrite” on national-security issues.

Minarik’s attack came in response to a report in yesterday’s Post that Spitzer personally intervened with the House Armed Services Committee to get Deputy Attorney General Dietrich Snell out of testifying. The panel is holding hearings on a Pentagon cyber-intelligence program code-named “Able Danger” that had information on 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta a year before the attacks.

“Mr. Spitzer must have a feeble memory or is just a horrible hypocrite,” Minarik said. “How else can anyone explain Mr. Spitzer shielding a top aide, who formerly served as an investigator with the 9/11 commission, from assisting our nation’s efforts to improve our security at home and abroad.”

A spokesman for Spitzer said Minarik was “misinformed and way off base as usual.”

Spitzer’s office claimed Snell had already provided information to congressional staffers about his involvement with the Able Danger probe.